Chris McDaniel on Families & Children

Hip-hop culture values prison more than college

In a promotional segment for his Christian conservative radio program, Right Side Radio, McDaniel conflated rap music with failing schools and broken communities. "Name a redeeming quality of hip-hop.
I want to know anything about hip-hop that has been good for this country. And it's not--before you get carried away--this has nothing to do with race.
Because there are just as many hip-hopping white kids and Asian kids as there are hip-hopping black kids.
It's a problem of a culture that values prison more than college; a culture that values rap and destruction of community values more than it does poetry; a culture that can't stand education. It's that culture that can't get control of itself."